Improvement in combined barrows and rollers



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Harrow and Roller.

N. 107,461. Patented Sept. 20,' 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 107,461, dated September 20, 1870.

The Schedule referredpto in 'these Letters Patent and making part oi'the same.

We, FRANK A. DANN and-JAMES MCKYIBBEN, of Wells'ville, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Missouri, have invented a new and usefulGombined Harrow and Roller, of which the following is a specification.'

Nata/rc and Objects of the Invention.

between the bands being occupied by bars furnished with barrow-teeth.

1)es v:ri1nioof the Accompanying Drauang.

Figure 1 is a top viewof thel implement.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section at the line y y, iig. 1, thedotted lines showing the position of the frame and barrow-bars when theimplement is adapted for moving to and from its work.

General Description.

A is the body ofthe roller,'having on its periphery a series `ofcircular belts or project-ingr portions, A'- A, which, in median-ing,are shown as eight in number, but may he of any desirable number andwidth.

This roller has gudgcons a c -iu the frame B, which has a tongue, C, to.which the draft-team is hitched.

Projecting from the land surfaces A A', 86o., ofthe roller are spikes orteeth D, whose function is to penetrate and break the clods.

' E E are iron bars, attached at their ends beneath the 'frameB B', andhaving teeth F, which act as harrowteeth upon the soil over which theimplement is drawn.

The machine performs the functions:

First, of a roller, as its periphery rest upon the soil, crushingtheclods and leveling the surface by pressure.

Second, of a'clod-crusher-7 as `the spikes D on the roller 'pcnetratetheclods.

Third, of a harrow, as the teeth onthe bars E are dragged over thesurfacev of the soil.

On the forward transverse bar of the frame B is a strap, G, which formsa-guide for the tongue when the frame is tilted into the position shownin dotted lines in iig. 2, in which condition the teeth ,F F are removedirom contact with the ground. A pin through the strap, or the tongue Gand strap G, holds the frame in this position.

Claim.

What we claim as new is-.

The combined hal-row and roller, constructed substantially as described,having spiked belts A A', and intervening barrow-teeth bars E, attachedto a tilting frame.

FRANK A. DANN. JAMES MCKIBBEN.

. Witnesses:

S. M. Brennan, J. M. BARKER.

